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climber
Dec 26, 2014 - 06:20pm PT

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Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Dec 26, 2014 - 06:54pm PT

Dana Plateau (Third Pillar)
the museum

climber
Dec 28, 2014 - 04:00pm PT

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ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Dec 28, 2014 - 10:04pm PT
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Dec 29, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
The sinister Black Kaweah.

Gene

climber
Dec 29, 2014 - 07:23pm PT
^^^ Nice photo and proud summit.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Dec 29, 2014 - 07:34pm PT
Thanks for the kind words, Gene. It is a special summit, spiritual. It felt inappropriate to sign the same register as so many of the greats of Sierra mountaineering.

Baboquivari has the same vibe, like being in the presence of I'itoi up there. We left a gift for him.


Tohono O'odham storytellers shared the following story with Ruth Murray Underhill in the late 1930s, which she recorded in her book, Singing For Power:

The world was made by Earth-maker out of the dirt and sweat which he scraped from his skin... the flat earth met the sky with a crash like that of falling rocks, and from the two was born Iitoi, the protector of Papagos. He had light hair and a beard. Iitoi and Earth-maker shaped and peopled the new world, and they were followed everywhere by Coyote, who came to life uncreated and began immediately to poke his nose into everything. In this new world there was a flood, and the three agreed before they took refuge that the one of them who should emerge first after the subsidence of the waters should be their leader and have the title of Elder Brother. It was Earth-maker, the creator, who came forth first, and Iitoi next, but Iitoi insisted on the title and took it. Iitoi "brought the people up like children" and taught them their arts, but in the end he became unkind and they killed him.... But Iitoi, though killed, had so much power that he came to life again. Then he invented war. He decided to sweep the earth of the people he had made. He needed an army and for this purpose he went underground and brought up the Papagos. They live in a land scattered with imposing ruins which belonged... to the Hohokum, "the people who are gone". Iitoi drove them, some to the north and some to the south... "Iitoi had a song for everything". Though his men did the fighting, Iitoi confirmed their efforts by singing the enemy into blindness and helplessness. Iitoi has retired from the world and lives, a little old man, in a mountain cave. Or, perhaps he has gone underground.

Ruth Murray Underhill was the sister of Robert Underhill.
neverwas

Mountain climber
ak
Feb 2, 2015 - 02:08am PT
McGinnis:Balchen: Hayes:
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 2, 2015 - 04:29am PT
Joron

Trad climber
Hoodland, Oregon
Sep 13, 2015 - 01:24pm PT
I like the summit photos!






tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Sep 13, 2015 - 01:52pm PT
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
Feb 15, 2016 - 10:15pm PT
Melanie Winsor
Saru

Mountain climber
Daventry
Feb 16, 2016 - 12:40am PT
Looking back down the Shu-ryo (main ridge) of the east face from the summit of Japan's Mt Shirouma (2932m) in April 2014.

the_dude

Mountain climber
anchorage, alaska
Feb 16, 2016 - 01:15am PT

Scotty Vincik on the summit of Mount Mausolus in the Revelation Mountains, Alaska. This was a particularly special summit for me, as it was the peak's first ascent. It was also the hardest climb of my life. Although I've gone on to climb bigger mountains, Mausolus remains the most special. It took everything we had...we slept in a hanging bivy (without sleep), we went 40 hours without water and we hallucinated on the descent. I had tried the peak for three years in a row with my friend Seth Holden before he died in 2010 in a plane crash not far from the Revelations. As we stood atop the peak on March 17, 2011, I scattered his ashes on the summit. It is a moment I will never forget. In the ensuing years, I have returned and made first ascents of/upon almost every peak in the background. A special place, indeed.
Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Feb 16, 2016 - 02:14am PT
^^ dude, that is really special!
Thanks for sharing with us. Seth was a lucky guy to have a friend like you.

cheers
the museum

Trad climber
Nov 24, 2016 - 08:21am PT

Earlier in the thread: this thread is just incredible. The grinning humanity and warmth, the enthusiasm and openness. Just fantastic, thanks!! Peter Haan



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Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Nov 24, 2016 - 10:40am PT
looks like my photobomb exploded...


anyway...
the museum

Trad climber
Nov 24, 2016 - 03:57pm PT

Yes Ed I saw that!! Kaboom!

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Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Dec 4, 2016 - 08:10pm PT
Note the slick duct tape gaitors.

Wheeler peak, Great Basin Park, Utah I think.

Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Dec 4, 2016 - 08:19pm PT

Don't remember where this is but it was a summit without a register. My favorite kind.

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